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单词 sipling
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siplingn.

/ˈsɪplɪŋ/
Forms: 1500s suppline, syplin, syeppaling, 1700s sippleing; 1600s, 1800s– sipling, 1800s siplin', -lin.
Etymology: perhaps < Old French souplin a shoot of a tree (Godefroy); as a mere variant of sapling n. the change of vowel would be difficult to account for.
northern and obsolete Scottish.
A sapling.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by age or life cycle > [noun] > young tree or sapling
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1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. i. 47 Quhar hepthorne buskis..grew hye, And evin syplinnis of myrthus.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. xiv. 87 And a haill suppline of a gret myrtre.
1610 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1884) I. 186 To cutt upp young siplings of asshe & hassells.
1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 13 in T. Nourse Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd (ed. 3) Young Plants, or Sippleings, as we here call them, of Oak, Ash or Aller.
1807 R. Anderson et al. Ballads in Cumberland Dial. (1881) 108 Wid a spur on my heel, a yek [= oak] siplin in han.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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